Every country’s Independence Day is a special event. A time to celebrate the birth of the nation and the freedom obtained. This is especially true for countries that were colonized at one point or the other, which is pretty much most countries of the world. In Africa for example only Ethiopia and Liberia were never colonized. I wonder what they mark as their independence or national day. Anyway, for countries that were colonized the quest for independence was pursued vigorously. Sometimes it was a peaceful transition but mostly it was bloody because the colonizer didn’t want to let go while the colonized wanted freedom. Freedom: the universal cry of the human soul.
For the United States independence came by way of war and the declaration of independence from their British colonialists on July 4, 1776. One statement I love from the Declaration of Independence is “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
